Surname statistics for Jack

There are approximately 12,430 people named Jack in the UK. That makes it the 812nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 197 are named Jack.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)12430812N/A197
United Kingdom (1881 census)63646750.021213
Change since 1881+6066-137-0.001-16
Other Countries
United States139902376N/A52
Australia14951098N/A91

Politics

People with the surname Jack are considerably less likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

David Jack
James Jack
William Jack
Robert Jack
Andrew Jack
John Jack
Michael Jack
Stephen Jack
Steven Jack
Ian Jack
George Jack
Gordon Jack
Richard Jack
Stuart Jack
Peter Jack
Colin Jack
Alexander Jack
Iain Jack
Graham Jack
Christopher Jack

Top female forenames

Margaret Jack
Janet Jack
Fiona Jack
Elizabeth Jack
Anne Jack
Susan Jack
Mary Jack
Jennifer Jack
Karen Jack
Catherine Jack
Sharon Jack
Nicola Jack
Wendy Jack
Caroline Jack
Helen Jack
June Jack
Heather Jack
Jacqueline Jack
Carol Jack
Pauline Jack

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.